Arts Vertigo
After reading this short piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about the Sydney Symphony’s Symphony at the Movies, I began wondering why American orchestras have failed to include the best of Bernard Herrmann in their repertoires. Is he neglected because he scored Hollywood thrillers? He is certainly the greatest film composer of all time, and one certainly doesn’t need the movie images to enjoy completely his atmospheric compositions. Maybe the Seattle Symphony can shake its present funk by making a leap of faith and embracing a mind whose music turns what ever space it enters into cinema.
but didn't they do an all herrmann program just last season ?
mind you it was billed as a hitchock retrospective syphony playing herrmann to film excerpts but still..
and while we're at it does anybody out there have a recording of bill frisell plaing the main theme from the van sant/psycho rescored by danny elfman ?
the soundtrack recording doesn't include it. but it's at the end of film and i've been looking for it for years..